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Anne Charnock

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Anne Charnock's novel DREAMS BEFORE THE START OF TIME is the winner of the 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award, and was shortlisted for the BSFA 2017 Best Novel Award. Her latest novel, BRIDGE 108, is written in the same world as her debut novel, A CALCULATED LIFE — a finalist for the 2013 Philip K. Dick and The Kitschies Golden Tentacle Awards.

SLEEPING EMBERS OF AN ORDINARY MIND, her second novel, was named by The Guardian as one of the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2015

Anne Charnock's journalism has appeared in New Scientist, The Guardian, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune and Geographical. She was educated at the University of East Anglia, where she studied Environmental Sciences, and at The Manchester School of Art, Eng ...more

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	A Calculated Life 3.66 avg rating — 2,158 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind 3.22 avg rating — 1,106 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dreams Before the Start of Time 3.28 avg rating — 807 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bridge 108 3.57 avg rating — 407 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best of British Science Fiction 2020 by Donna Scott (Goodreads Author), M.R. Carey (Goodreads Author), Lavie Tidhar 4.03 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	2084 by George Sandison (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Desirina Boskovich (Goodreads Author), Malcolm Devlin 3.78 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Enclave 4.21 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Phantasma: Stories by Anne Charnock (Goodreads Author), J.D. Horn (Goodreads Author), Kate Maruyama (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“She had interesting cracks on her ceiling, which she had mentally enhanced and colored to make a virtual series of 723 abstracts.”
― Anne Charnock, A Calculated Life

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“An Experiment: To introduce random activity into daily routines, forcing a shift into uncharted territory and new experiences.”
― Anne Charnock, A Calculated Life

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“bugbear, that Tom. She should have told him; if he needed so much”
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October Science Fiction -- the following poll decides which two books will go to the final round of polls for October 2019's Science Fiction BOTM

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

14 votes, 21.2%

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

12 votes, 18.2%

Excession by Iain M. Banks

11 votes, 16.7%

Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler

10 votes, 15.2%

Blindsight by Peter Watts

9 votes, 13.6%

The January Dancer by Michael Flynn

4 votes, 6.1%

Dreams Before the Start of Time by Anne Charnock

3 votes, 4.5%

The Merro Tree by Katie Waitman

3 votes, 4.5%

66 total votes

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“But a thought swarmed in me; what if he, this yellow-eyed being – in his ridiculous, dirty bundle of trees, in his uncalculated life – is happier than us?”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

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“Luck is the grand equalizer.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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“. . . the world in which we live has an increasing number of feedback loops, causing events to be the cause of more events (say, people buy a book because other people bought it), thus generating snowballs and arbitrary and unpredictable planet-wide winner-take-all effects.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

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message 2: by Lisa

Aug 26, 2014 07:23AM

Thank you for the friendly GR invite. It was a pleasure reading and reviewing A Calculated Life

It seems we have similar tastes in literature. I look forward to sharing the experience as readers on GR.

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Aug 24, 2014 03:25PM

Very kind!! I'll watch for your book recommendations :D

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